Facing a January 30 deadline for another federal government shutdown, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Tuesday that the Democratic leadership would not seek to block funding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other units of the Department of Homeland Security.

The American Prospect reported that several Democrats in closely contested districts would be voting for the ICE appropriation. “They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement,” an unnamed source told the liberal magazine. “They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    121·
    12 hours ago

    WTF? They’re concerned that voting AGAINST funding ICE would hurt their reelection? Who are they trying to impress? The 16% that think ICE is doing a good job? They should be concerned about the 84% that thinks they’re going to far!

    “They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement,”

    Any Dem that is thinking like that needs to go. ICE isn’t “law enforcement,” they are feral hyenas, preying on our nation. They are the Homeland Security version of DOGE, and they are a scourge on our nation. Any candidate that can’t make that case to their constituents, who are AGAINST ICE, is too stupid and ineffective to be a Representative. They are far more concerned about their own survival, than the survival of America. Primary them out.

    We know that MAGA is destroying America, so any Dem that isn’t actively resisting them is complicit. This shouldn’t even be a thing. EVERY vote on a MAGA issue is an automatic, across the board NO, by EVERY single Democrat. No exceptions should be tolerated. This is a political war, and it is imperative that Dems be as united as the MAGAs have been for years.

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
    111·
    12 hours ago

    Progressive Yanks, you got to stop taking prisoners. Burn this shit down.

  • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    12 hours ago

    I love having arguments with pro-democrat Lemmy users for days before this, they’re coming out of the woodwork to say shit like “Dems would never have allowed any of this!” “They’re not perfect but they’re at least not in favor of Trump’s agenda!” and so on. (Odd that they always seem to appear in force in election years.)

    I want to reiterate this all again:

    the DNC has the same fucking donors as the GOP. THEY ARE THE SAME TEAM.

    The pushback, the rhetoric, the speeches and stern-letters… it’s all Kayfabe, they want you to think there are two sides. It’s SO easy to act and pull this off and half ya’ll are children who can’t think outside of a two-sided narrative. You would have been addicted to WWE and argued it’s real back in the day.

    Flush the contents of the DNC and elect new representatives broadly, every incumbent must go.

  • Meursault@lemmy.world
    71·
    12 hours ago

    And the non-Americans here were asking why we hated the “opposition” party so much.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    4·
    12 hours ago

    It’s time to bring out The Hook for the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries. If they won’t go, drag them off them stage.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
    94·
    13 hours ago

    “HOUSE DEMS XYZ”

    Look inside

    1% of dems vote for policy

    sigh

    Can someone better at math than OP explain to the class how many votes are needed in the house to have a majority, and compare that to the seats held by Republicans?

    • fort_burp@feddit.nl
      111·
      13 hours ago

      I get that, for some baffling reason, you’re defending Democrats, but their other option is to reject funding and cause another government shutdown. That could be combined with the current general strike (by extending it past the Jan 30 deadline to get the government funded) to bring the whole country to a complete halt unless ICE gets the fuck out, Trump and Noem impeached / locked up, or whatever other demands the people have of their government. This would be a fantastic use of political power to enable democratic expression and improve the lives of millions of people! That being said, there’s no way the Democrats will do that. Instead, they support the Republican efforts.

      • nosuchanon@lemmy.world
        6·
        13 hours ago

        This would be a fantastic use of political power to enable democratic expression and improve the lives of millions of people! That being said, there’s no way the Democrats will do that. Instead, they support the Republican Corporate efforts.

        Fixed that for you.

      • Godric@lemmy.world
        25·
        12 hours ago

        Did you do that math on 435/2 + X Dems = bill passes? What is the magic number of Democrats that are needed for a bill to pass?

        Also, what general strike? You can declare one all day long, but if the general public doesn’t even know about it, it ain’t that general.

  • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
    9·
    16 hours ago

    Can we get protest going outside these fuckers houses every day and night? Maybe throw some fucking rocks?

    Are you FUCKING SHITTING ME???

    every single one of the shit stains is complicit and will be tried for their cooperation with the enemy when this shit ends.

  • jontree255@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    23 hours ago

    Democrats are so fucking stupid:

    1. ICE is no longer law enforcement (if it ever was). They are Trumps roving gang of thugs laying siege to American cities. We don’t get to exist as a free society if ICE continues to exist.
    2. Don’t fucking talk about cost of living when you tried to gaslight us that everything was fine under Biden in 2024 AND tried to bury Mamdani last fall.
    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      1·
      7 hours ago

      And kept De La Cruz and Greens (I know) off the ballots only in swing states.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      7·
      18 hours ago

      they support this, because they still want the hand that feeds them,ie billionaires who also support the gop. also because they can use this as political capital to get elected in the next elections

  • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    14 hours ago

    I can’t wait to vote against Eric Sorensen in the primary. That guy is a real chode and has betrayed the common man at every turn.